Figure 1 : Eddies in the PBL
The turbulent edies
are carried upward on the envelopes of the large eddies. Buoyant turbulent
kinetic energy generation by MFC occurs in the environment of the
turbulent eddies and gives rise to the formation of microscale capping
inversion ( MCI
) layer on the large eddy envelope. The MCI is
seen as the rising inversion of the day time PBL in echosonde and
radiosonde records.
Townsend ( 1956 ) has
derived the following relationship between the large and turbulent eddy
root mean square ( r. m. s ) circulation speeds W and
w*
and their respective radii R and r as follows

W is approximately
equal to
0.25 for R/r = 10 where R/r
is the length scale ratio z . Therefore upward turbulent
vetical velocity production at the planetary surface gives rise to upward
propagating large eddies or gravity ( buoyancy ) waves.
The MCI is a
region of vertical mixing since the turbulent eddy fluctuations mix overlying
environmental into the large eddy volume. The fractional volume dilution
rate k of the total large eddy volume by vetical mixing is
derived as ( Mary Selvam et al., 1985a )

where w* is
the turbulent vertical velocity production by MFC and dW
is the corresponding increase in the large eddy circulation speed. The
value of k is greater than 0.5 for length scale
ratio z less than 10 . Though a continuous
spectrum of eddies propagate outward from the planetary surface , only
those eddies with length scale ratio greater than or equal to 10
can exist as discrete, identifiable, semipermanent entities in the PBL
since dilution by vertical mixing erases their ( large eddy ) signature
for smaller scale ratios. In summary, the PBL contains a semipermanent
hierarchical system of eddies consisting of the convective, meso-, synoptic
and planetary scales which evolve basically from the dominant turbulence
scale at successive decadic scale range intervals and is manifested as
mesoscale cloud clusters and cloud rows in global synoptic weather systems.
Enhanced condensation inside clouds amplifies the myriads of turbulent
eddies and gives rise to cloud top gravity oscillations. Cloud water condensation
in the innumerable turbulent eddies is responsible for the observed cauliflower-like
surface granularity of the cumulus cloud. The physical mechanism of growth
of the atmospheric buoyancy ( gravity ) waves from turbulent buoyant energy
production is analogous to the conditional instability of the second kind
( CISK ) mechanism ( Holton, 1979 ) where hurricane systems are postulated
to derive their energy from convective scale cloud condensation. Also there
is an inherent two-way energy feedback mechanism in the hierarchical system
of eddies discussed in this paper and given in Equation 1 which is a statement
of the law of conservation of energy, selfsimilarity and self-consistency
in atmospheric processes. The kinetic energy E of unit volume
of the atmospheric eddy of frequency n
may be shown to be equal to Hn
where H is the instantaneous spin angular momentum of unit
volume of planetary scale eddy about the earth's axis. It is further shown
( Mary Selvam, 1986 ) that the eddy energy spectrum gives the probability
density distribution of the eddy field. Thus, the physical laws governing
eddy dynamics in the macroscopic planetay atmosphere is analogous to the
quantum mechanical laws of the sub-atomic space. Therefore the mesoscale
cloud clusters are a visible macroscale manifestation of the universal
quantum mechanical nature of the energy stucture of natural phenomena.
The full continuum of atmospheric eddies exist as a unified whole in time
and space and contribute to the manifested atmospheric phenomena in the
global planetary atmosphere and such a concept is similar to the bootstrap
theory of Chew ( 1968 ) and the theory of implicate order envisaged
by Bohm ( 1951 ).
The relationship between
the size ( R ) , time period ( T ), circulation
velocity ( W ) and energy ( E ) scales of the
convective ( c ) , meso- ( m ), synoptic ( s ) and planetary ( p ) scale
atmospheric eddy system to the basic turbulence scale ( t
) is derived from Equation 1 and is given below.
R : Rt = r : 10r : 10
2r
: 10 3r : 10 4r
T : tt = t : 40t : 40
2t
: 40 3t : 40 4t
W : Wt = w*
: 0.25w* : 0.25 2w* : 0.25 3w*
: 0.25 4w*
E : Et = e
: 62.5 e
: 62.5 2e
: 62.5 3e
: 62.5 4e
The globally observed
quasi-biennial oscillation ( QBO ) and the 20-year cycle in weather patterns
( Burroughs, 1986 ) may possibly result respectively from the fundamental
semi-diurnal atmospheric oscillation ( QBO ~ 12 hrs x 402 )
and the 5 - minutes oscillations of the sun's atmosphere ( 20 years ~ 5
minutes x 404 ) ( Equation 3 ). Such a process is analogous
to anti-Stokes laser emission triggered by laser pump.

This is the well known
logarithmic wind profile relationship in the surface ABL and the
Von
Karman's constant k is now defined by the new theory
as representing the fractional volume dilution rate of the large eddy by
vertical mixing due to turbulent eddy fluctuations for a scale ratio of
10
. Further, the theory states that the logarithmic wind profile relationship
prevails throughout the PBL , the absolute value of W
being determined solely by MFC in the dominant turbulent eddy. Logarithmic
spiral airflow tracks ( vortices ) are therefore associated with vortex
roll circulations and is consistent with observations ( Hauf, 1985 ). The
atmospheric eddy continuum therefore consists of a hierarchical system
of vortices within vortices.
The parcels of air
rising up from the surface in the updraft regions of large eddy circulations
get diluted by vertical mixing and only a fraction f reaches
the normalised height z and is given by ( Mary Selvam et
al ., 1985 ).

W = w* f z
Since the eddy energy
is derived from microscale fractional condensation on hygroscopic nuclei
in the troposphere the eddy enegy spectrum is dependent on the atmospheric
nuclei size spectrum. The observed atmospheric nuclei spectra follow the
Junge aerosol size spectrum ( Pruppacher and Klett, 1978 ) and it is shown
that the observed aerosol size spectrum is a natural consequence of the
atmospheric eddy continuum ( Ramachandra Murty et al ., 1985 ).
The aerosol size spectrum has a computed maximum spectral slope of -4.8
in the maximum size region.
Figure 2 : Universal pressure and wind anomaly patterns in synoptic eddy systems
Decrease in r results in
increase in absolute values of the pressure and wind gradients.
The above physical
mechanism envisaged for atmospheric eddy growth postulates the co-existence
of large and small eddies in a hierarchical system with ordered dynamical
local-global mutual energy exchange and therefore all energy systems are
inherently non-local. It is shown that such a concept leads to the universally
observed normal distribution characteristics in natural phenomena. Also,
Lovejoy and Schertzer( 1986 ) have established the fractal characteristics
of rain areas and rainfall in association with the observed scale invariant
characteristics of the atmospheric eddy energy spectrum. The regions of
eddy continuum energy enhancement are conventionally associated with ordered
chaos. The universal route to chaos, namely, period doubling, intermittency
and scale invariant eddy energy structure ( Harrison and Biswas, 1986 )
is commonly observed in all natural growth phenomena ( Fairbairn , 1986
) and therefore is an inherent characteristic of the quantum mechanical
nature for the eddy energy structure manifestation in natural phenomena.
Since eddy circulation inherently consists of opposite directions of motion
in association with different manifested phenomena, the apparent quantisation
of energy in nature occurs. Eddy motions or vibrations in the PBL
are responsible for the observed normal distribution characteristics of
thermodynamical parameters as explained in the following. The eddy energy
propagates by the inherent property of inertia of the medium and therefore
w*
, w*2 ,
w*3
and w*4 respectively represent
the inertia, force, angular momentum and spin angular momentum of the medium
caused by the eddy motion initiated by the turbulence scale acceleration
w*
per second. Therefore, the mean ( w ), variance ( s2
), skewness and kurtosis are respectively given by w*
, w*2 , w*3
and w*4 . The moment coefficient
of skewness is equal to zero. The moment coefficient of kurtosis
is equal to three and represents a factor of three increase in the spin
angular momentum for the inherent period doubling process of large eddy
growth in the MCI . Therefore the normal distribution characteristics
conventionally attributed to random chance are in reality the deterministic
laws of eddy growth by the period doubling process and represent the implicit
order in natural phenomena. Signal and noise exist in each other in nature
since signal is but the integrated mean of the conventional background
random noise over large space and time scales. Further, the following fundamental
relations in statistics and mathematics may be obtained from the physical
concept of the eddy growth mechanism as follows. The standard equation
relatining population and sample standard deviation follows from Equation
1, namely, W22 = W12
/n where n = z2 / z1 , and
z1,
z2
are the respective scale ratios with respect to the turbulence scale for
two large eddy circulations of root mean square circulation speeds W1
and W2 respectively. The function
f
also gives the angular displacement of the particle trajectory on the large
eddy envelope for successive radial growth steps r and it
may be shown that f = p
= 22/7 = circumference/diameter
for a complete large eddy circulation of scale ratio 10 .
The hierarchical growth of large eddies from turbulence scale is basically
by a period doubling process in the MCI where incremental
growth occurs in length steps equal to r . The layer MCI
is thus a region of chaos. The unique particle trajectory design of concentric
circles in the field of chaos has been named the strange attractor and
results from the inherent hierarchy of the continuum vortex roll circulations.
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the component turbulent eddies and has been observed commonly in the stratospheric
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equatorial convective dynamics for the major planets. Particles in the
planetary rings may be shown to follow the relation R3
/ T2 = constant from Equations 1 and 2
and is therefore consistent with Kepler's third law of planetary motion.
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